Jason Rhoades, Four Roads will be the first major gallery exhibition of the work of this exceptional artist who died in 2006 at the age of 41. Rhoades lived and worked in Los Angeles. The exhibition will occupy BALTIC’s two largest floors, with four installations to be navigated by four interpretive paths or roads

The first solo exhibition of his work in the UK will explore how he worked across disciplines, experimenting with photography, art and science. György Kepes will showcase 80 of his photographs, photomontages and photograms produced during his time in Chicago, around 1938-42.

The most comprehensive gathering of her works to date, Cathy Wilkes brings together more than a decade of the Turner Prize nominated artist’s consistently lauded practice. Since the late 1990s Cathy Wilkes (b.1966) has made installations and assemblages which combine investigations into sculptural art history often with personal references.

The exhibition explores Carrington’s diverse creative practice, taking a selection of key paintings made throughout her career as its starting point. A prolific painter, the exhibition explores how Carrington established her distinctive take on surrealism.read more

Since the late 1950s, Franz Erhard Walther has developed a unique body of work with touches of various movements including minimalist sculpture, conceptual art, abstract art and performance art. By locating the body, language, space and time at the centre of his thinking, the artist gives pride of place to the viewer whose mental and physical commitment is of paramount importance.

The style of Dutch artist Parra (Pieter Janssen, 1976) is recognisable, absurdist, playful and ironic. Parra’s work is characterised by modern ‘post-Pop’ drawings with vibrant colours and quirky typography.read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: BJÖRK

March 07 2015 -> June 07 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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The Museum of Modern Art presents a full-scale retrospective dedicated to the multifaceted work of the composer, musician, and artist Björk.read more

The Lebanese artist Akram Zaatari compares his work to that of an archaeologist. He excavates images, memories and stories. As one of the initiators of the Arab Image Foundation, he has created an archive of more than 600,000 images. This archive is also a source for several of his artistic works, especially those relating to the photographer Hashen El Madani and Studio Scherazade in Zaatari’s home town of Saida in Lebanon.

The Palais Galliera, in close collaboration with Alber Elbaz, artistic director of Lanvin, is honouring the oldest French fashion house still in business. This first Paris exhibition devoted to Jeanne Lanvin (1867-1946) features over a hundred models from the amazing collections of the Palais Galliera and the Lanvin Heritage. read more

Caught between sculpture and painting, Ryman’s artwork is characterized by recycled wood, metal, cardboard, scrap metals, acrylic and enamel paints and other found objects. When working with wood, he often keeps the rough jagged edges visible. read more

Jeff Wall (born in 1946) is the master of modern photography. Many contemporary painters and photographers are indebted to this artist from Vancouver who prepares every single image with the same care as if it were a theater piece developing in several acts.read more

This is the first U.S. museum exhibition of mirror works and drawings by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian (b. Qazvin, Iran, 1924). Considered in relation to the Guggenheim’s historical commitment to abstraction, this presentation examines the artist’s rich body of work in its own right and as part of a transnational perspective on artistic production and its reception.read more

With over 500 postcards, film and photo stills, the hands-on family exhibition Wonder World opens up the realm of imagination. Glamorous divas take visitors into a world full of surreal fantasies and mysterious dreams in which theatre and irony reign supreme.

The jewellery and object artist Anton Cepka is one of the most important jewellery makers of the 20th century. Born in 1936 in Sulekovo, Czechoslovakia – now Slovakia – Cepka was a leading exponent of the modern jewellery after World War II. Today he is respected as the doyen of both Slovakian and Czech jewelry artists.read more

The first and largest retrospective of the late designer’s work to be presented in Europe, the exhibition will showcase McQueen’s visionary body of work. Spanning his 1992 MA graduate collection to his unfinished A/W 2010 collection, McQueen’s designs will be presented with the dramatic staging and sense of spectacle synonymous with his runway shows.

Music played a major role for Dieter Roth all his life and finds its way into his oeuvre in a variety of ways. He integrated musical instruments into his assemblages as mute reliefs alongside cassette players and other audio devices, for example, and uses them as motifs in his paintings and works on paper. read more

This exhibition brings together two leading collections of early modernist art that now form part of the holdings of the Kunstmuseum Basel (Basle, Switzerland), the Staechelin Collection and the Im Obersteg Collection, offering an opportunity to enjoy works by the most reputed early modernist masters, the vast majority of which have never before been seen in Spain. read more

The Museo Reina Sofía will be showing a selection from the Kunstmuseum Basel’s important collection of modern and contemporary art, comprising more than a hundred works (paintings, sculptures, collages, photographs and videos). read more

For David Hockney (born 1937) art is the unique connection between observation and reproduction. Louisiana’s guests have experienced this themselves, every time they have stood before Hockney’s A Closer Grand Canyon, one of the major paintings in the museum’s collection, and in 2011, when Louisiana exhibited Hockney, who had suddenly thrown himself into iPhone and iPad as reproductive media for his experiences.read more

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker reimagines her piece Vortex Temporum for the radically different temporal, spatial, and perceptual conditions of a museal space. The choreographer does not simply bring a dance performance into a new kind of space, but rethinks it as a nine weeks long exhibition, accessible to the public and continuously performed during regular opening hoursread more

Through its artistic program, the Palais de Tokyo seeks to develop new forms of experimentation that would enable it to enrich its approach to art – with regards to
the arts professions. Thanks to the Bettencourt Schueller Foundation, the program The Use of Form brings together professionals from the worlds of art, design, the visual arts and architecture to discuss the tool and the technical instrument. The exhibition proposes an exploration of the mechanisms of human ingenuity and the passionate relationship
that exists between a creator and his tools.read more

Foam is proud to present the first solo exhibition by Belgian artist Geert Goiris (born Bornem, 1971) in the Netherlands. His unconventional visual language and unsettling tone are still little known within our country.

For their solo exhibition To Photograph the Details of a Dark Horse in Low Light, internationally highly acclaimed artists Adam Broomberg (South Africa, 1970) and Oliver Chanarin (Great Britain, 1971) lead viewers through a meandering and disturbing history lesson on the relationship between photography and race.

Every year since 1975, American photographer Nicholas Nixon (b. 1947) has taken a portrait of his wife Bebe and her three sisters. The requirements for this unusual, long-term artistic project are extremely simple: The four women reunite for a group portrait, with the only constants being the order in which they appear left to right and the size of the negative.read more

The Tate Britain Commission, supported by Sotheby’s, invites artists to make work in response to Tate’s collection of British and international art in the Duveen Galleries at the heart of Tate Britain.read more

Dark Blooms is the fruitful result of an ambitious collaboration initiated in 2013 between photographer Matteo Bertolio and designer Carolina Mazzolari, both camerawork enthusiasts and intrigued by the representation of women in visual arts.

Following an exhibition of drawings by Philip Guston (1913–1980) at the Staatliche Graphische Sammlung in 2007/2008, the museum is dedicating another exhibition to this important artist, bringing together his entire printed work with the near-complete series of acrylic paintings on paper Guston made shortly before his death.read more

The exhibition L’Archipel secret explores south-east Asia from the platform that is Singapore. Its multiple forms, aesthetic and cultural dimensions and intellectual practices were inherited from the history of its introduction to and confrontations with commerce, its belief systems, its aristocratic dynasties and colonial incursions.read more

Ralph Pucci: The Art of the Mannequin will be the first museum exhibition to explore the work of renowned New York-based designer Ralph Pucci, who is widely regarded for his innovative approach to the familiar form of the mannequin. read more

The Little Things Could Be Dearer highlights four artists whose work heightens our awareness of more direct physical and emotional relations. These artists create groupings or networks of forms that take as their subject aspects of bodies coming together—individually or socially—to emphasize their points of contact. read more

Bob and Roberta Smith are offering an opportunity for artists to dispose of their artwork at MoMA PS1, and to retire from making art. Beginning October 2, artists are invited to deposit their art in dumpsters located in the museum’s courtyard, which will be emptied as needed throughout the period of the Art Amnesty. Those who wish to exhibit their work one final time before it is destroyed may bring their art to the 2nd Floor Main Galleries, where museum staff will install it for public view.

Fashioning Life: Wear Your Story creates a narrative at the intersection of fashion, affect, and autobiography.
To illustrate fashion’s potential as a medium for life writing, curator Filomena Natale Gasparro asked 14 women (including Design Exchange's curator Sara Nickleson) to illustrate a crucial experience from their lives onto a simple white canvas dress. Gasparro designed three template dresses using three iconic silhouettes from the '50s, '60s, and '70s, which the women were encouraged to manipulate and deconstruct as they wished.

The exhibition Like Child's Play, Works On-site, 2014 presents two new works created by Daniel Buren for the Strasbourg Modern and Contemporary Art Museum (MAMCS). They have been installed on the MAMCS' 1500 m2 glazed façade and in the 600 m2 temporary exhibition area. read more

Over the past two decades, some national and international governments have garnered attention for imposing draconian laws that restrict the rights of citizens under the guise of improving quality of life.read more

This year, James Christian, Ilona Gaynor, Torsten Sherwood and Patrick Stevenson-Keating have responded to the theme of Disruption by exploring future housing, judicial system loopholes, construction as play and the financial systems.read more

Drawing on extensive research about the use of color in antiquity, Italian artist Francesco Vezzoli (b. 1971) has collaborated with a team of archaeologists, conservators and polychrome specialists to paint five ancient Roman busts in the manner in which they would originally have been decorated. read more

Marian Goodman Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of the vintage work of Francesca Woodman. I’m trying my hand at fashion photography will be the fourth solo exhibition in the New York space dedicated to Woodman’s vintage photographs.read more

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac is delighted to announce Bjarne Melgaard’s exhibition "The Casual Pleasure of Disappointment" in the Paris Marais gallery. He first showed with the gallery in Paris Pantin in the group exhibition "Empire State. New York Art Now", where he created a room sized installation with paintings as well as sculptures in homage to Allen Jones.

Erwin Wurm has done much to expand the concept of sculpture, and he uses absurd and comic elements of contemporary society – particularly in relation to the human body. In his sculptures and performances, he has repeatedly re-drawn and extended the fragile boundary defining a visible form from inside and outside, fundamentally challenging and questioning the viewer's perception of reality.

Before & After is an experimental film shot in 1973 during the Yom Kippur war. In the film Gitai revisited an event that occurred when he was only 23 years old, namely a helicopter crash from which he miraculously escaped with his life. It was after that that he decided to make films. The Super 8 features the military jacket Gitai was wearing at the time of the accident; and it becomes the central 'character' of the film.

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: MARYLAND TO MURANO

until Sunday March 15 2015MAD - Museum of Art and Design
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2 Columbus Circle
10019 New York
United States

Bringing together Scott’s neckpieces and blown glass sculptures for the first time, Maryland to Murano: Neckpieces and Sculptures by Joyce J. Scott examines Scott's prolific career, defined by her ever-evolving techniques, continued exploration of provocative narratives, and commitment to her craft.

2 – the ti­tle is the agen­da. The largest room in the mu­se­um is di­vid­ed in­to two parts, one light and the other dark. In the dark space An­drea Bütt­n­er is show­ing her lat­est video in­s­tal­la­tion, Piano De­struc­tions* 2014. Fea­tured here is his­tor­i­cal foo­tage of per­for­mances in which artists — al­most exlu­sive­ly men — de­stroy pianos; as well as a per­for­mance of her own, in which nine fe­male pian­ists play pie­ces by Schu­mann and Chopin in cho­rus.

This exhibition will trace the development of the fashionable white wedding dress and its treatment by key fashion designers such as Charles Frederick Worth, Norman Hartnell, Charles James, John Galliano, Christian Lacroix, Vivienne Westwood and Vera Wang offering a panorama of fashion over the last two centuries.

From the seconds after a bomb is detonated to a former scene of battle years after a war has ended, this moving exhibition focuses on the passing of time, tracing a diverse and poignant journey through over 150 years of conflict around the world, since the invention of photography.read more

In 2014, the Maeght Foundation invites all art lovers to celebrate its fiftieth anniversary with three major events. The third event will be devoted to artistic encounters and will be accompanied by concerts and events orchestrated in the spirit of the «Nuits de la Fondation Maeght». read more

From the collection of the NMCA, Korean National Museum of Contemporary Art, comes the project dedicated to video art in Korea.

80 works and 40 artists, starting with Nam June Paik, whose phrase “People talk about the future being tomorrow, but the future is now!” is the title of the show.
The works shown will be by the pioneers of video art, the “video generation” of the Nineties, through to the generation of younger artists who operate in the hyper-connected society of the digital revolution.

The Lois Weinberger Gift exhibition is the second in a short series of presentations focusing on recent gifts to the S.M.A.K., following that of major works by the French artist François Morellet, which the museum inherited from the Brussels collector Henri Chotteau in 2012. This time it concerns a gift of 16 works by the Austrian artist Lois Weinberger (Stams, 1947).

The opening of the Fondation Louis Vuitton is the opportunity to revisit an extraordinary architectural adventure, through an exhibition dedicated to the building designed by Frank Gehry. The curatorship has been entrusted to Frédéric Migayrou, assisted by Sébastien Cherruet, in close cooperation with the teams at Gehry Partners in Los Angeles. read more

Canadian artists Janet Cardiff (Brussels, Ontario, Canada, 1957) and George Bures Miller (Vegreville, Alberta, Canada, 1960) will develop a site-specific project for the Palacio de Cristal in the Retiro Park. For this unique space, and in line with their previous installations (The Paradise Institute, 2001; Telephone/Time, 2004; The Secret Hotel, 2005 and The Killing Machine, 2007, among others), viewers will come across a new conceptual, visual and sound collage.

Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) is considered to be one of the most influential artists of the 20th century. Her original and complex as well as fascinating and diverse oeuvre will be presented in a major survey including 105 works covering the artist’s whole career stretching from the 1930s to 2009. Some of the works in the show have never been presented publicly before.read more

The villa Noailles art centre is a good example of ”archimode”, a fusion between architecture and fashion. In 2015, for its thirtieth anniversary, fashion takes pride of place in the exhibition Archimode, exploring the similarities between the work of fashion designers and architects for whom the subject of the human body is key to all projects.read more

Peter Doig (*1959) is one of the most fascinating artists of today. The Fondation Beyeler presents an exhibition of his most important oil paintings and experimental works on paper, as well as a monumental new mural.read more

An expressionist painter firmly rooted in Chinese tradition, Michael Chow (b. 1938, Shanghai) returned to making art in 2012 after a 50-year hiatus. Voice for My Father, Michael Chow’s first exhibition in mainland China, includes three parallel bodies of work installed in two of UCCA’s exhibition spaces. In the Nave are presented a suite of Chow’s newest paintings, ecumenically employing materials as varied as gold leaf and raw eggs, and characterized by a unique balance between order and chaos, rigor and improvisation, freedom and control.

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: CUT TO SWIPE

until Sunday March 22 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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11 West 53rd Street
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Cut to Swipe, comprised primarily of recent acquisitions by the Department of Media and Performance Art, features works that appropriate and manipulate images and sound drawn from electronic media like television, cinema, the recording industry, and the Internet.read more

Guggenheim Abu Dhabi’s pre-opening exhibition at Manarat Al Saadiyat will introduce the future museum’s curatorial vision through a theme-based collection presentation. This vision endeavors to foster a transcultural perspective on the history of art, intended to encompass various legacies of modernism and the emergence of contemporary cultural thought in an increasingly interconnected and interdependent world.

Through André Óptica, we evoke one of the accessories with greatest transformation over time. Real fashion icon, the collection with over 3000 vintage items is on display in the safes’ room, in a selection featuring some of the major brands, styles and authors from the 1950s to the present day.

A very special photography collection of the noble Van Loon family will be exhibited for the very first time. The exhibition is a collaboration between across the canal neighbours, Museum Van Loon and photography museum Foam.

The exhibition JEWELLERY 1970–2015: BOLLMANN COLLECTION. FRITZ MAIERHOFER – Retrospective actually comprises two parallel exhibitions. One provides an insight into the collection of Heidi and Karl Bollmann, the subject of which is contemporary jewelry. The second section displays a chronological overview of the oeuvre—jewellery and sculptures—of Fritz Maierhofer, one of the leading jewellery artists in Austria.

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THE NETHERLANDS / EINDHOVEN: SACHI MIYACHI, THE FALL - TRANSITION INTO THE BETTER

In The Fall – Transition into the better Sachi Miyachi aims to explore how human creativity is deployed in times of crisis, natural disasters and human error as a means to create new forms of energy. In Het Oog, she wants to create a space for regular performances which refer to a variety of festivals in the world that seek a state of purity by driving negative spirits away, like Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colours.read more

More than 20 artists and 200 workspresenting a country through its art from 1960 to the present, by way of the revolution of 1979 and the war between Iran and Iraq in the 1980s.

Combining reality and the ideal, politics and poetics, current affairs and memories: a gaze turned above all to a number of important figures from the most recent avant-garde movements in the fields of the visual arts and film, including the latest generation of artists.

With Obsession, focusing on the art addiction and repetitive processes with which artists and collectors live daily, Maison Particulière invites Gérard Garouste to take part in itsthirteenth exhibition. The French artist chose a selection of works from his scuptural and pictorial oeuvre, and also imagined his ideal collection from Marcel Broodthaers to Thierry de Cordier, providing an overview of his sensibility. The collectors invited along with the artist ((The EKARD Collection, Chris and Lieven Declerck, Hélène David-Weill, with Myriam and Amaury de Solages) assume their obsessions. They’ve looked in their collection for artworks that show their own obsessions or the recurring characteristics of certain artists that might demonstrate a certain kind of mania.
Two literary guests take part in this art exhibition: François de Coninck and François Rachline ; as well as French well-known designer Elisabeth Garouste.read more

This exhibition introduces the work of aesthetical excellence of António Lagarto, presenting many of the pieces characterizing his long and varied career and that make the history of costumes and scenery of the past 50 years.read more

This exhibition aims to show the development of Portuguese design over the last 34 years. It focuses on traditional manufacturing sectors such as ceramics, glass, cork, footwear, textiles and wood emphasizing the formal and technical renovation in progress.read more

Serge Bensimon is particularly attentive to well-being and environments and offers a genuine reflection, in both senses of the term, through its design gallery’s exclusive products and selections.read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: 100 YEARS IN POST-PRODUCTION

until Tuesday March 31 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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11 West 53rd Street
10019 New York
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Resurrecting a Lost Landmark of Black Film History

Unedited footage for an unreleased black-cast feature film, originally shot in 1913 and recently discovered in MoMA’s Biograph collection, are the subject of this installation.

March 03 2015 -> April 04 2015The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
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7th Avenue at 27th Street
10001 New York
United States

Lauren Bacall: The Look is a celebration of the film and theater star’s unique style in which Bacall’s own garments take the spotlight. The exhibition will also explore Bacall’s personal relationships with several of the fashion designers who dressed her.

until Sunday April 05 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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11 West 53rd Street
10019 New York
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Contemporary Painting in an Atemporal World

Forever Now presents the work of 17 artists whose paintings reflect a singular approach that characterizes our cultural moment at the beginning of this new millennium: they refuse to allow us to define or even meter our time by them.read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: JEAN DUBUFFET: SOUL OF THE UNDERGROUND

until Sunday April 05 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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11 West 53rd Street
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Jean Dubuffet (French, 1901–1985) maintained a rebellious attitude toward prevailing notions of high culture, beauty, and good taste, and was a relentless innovator from the time he committed himself to art making in the early 1940s. Jean Dubuffet: Soul of the Underground, the first monographic presentation on the artist at MoMA in over 25 years, illuminates Dubuffet’s radical experimentation with form and material by focusing on the key moment in his career, from the 1940s to the mid-1960s.

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art is organizing the first major exhibition in Scandinavia of the German painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). The exhibition comprises about 100 paintings and drawings.read more

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall has played host to some of the world’s most striking and memorable works of contemporary art. Now, this vast space welcomes the largest work ever created by renowned American sculptor Richard Tuttle (born 1941).read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: NEW TERRITORIES

until Monday April 06 2015MAD - Museum of Art and Design
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2 Columbus Circle
10019 New York
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The term “new territories,” as evoked by Italian architect and designer Gaetano Pesce, refers to the state of making in today’s globalized society, a phenomenon that has helped to spur a confluence of art, design and craft. The exhibition New Territories: Laboratories for Design, Craft and Art in Latin America will examine this trend in several distinct cities throughout Latin America, where some of the most pertinent new directions in arts and design are emerging today.

Human Rights Human Wrongs features more than 200 original press prints, drawn from the prestigious Black Star collection of twentieth century photo reportage. The exhibition spans a time frame from 1945 until the early 90s.read more

To mark the launch of their debut collection entitled ‘Timiditine,’ luxury womenswear brand Bâba will be taking up residence on the lower ground floor at Hostem for six weeks.
Guests will be led by floor tapestries to travel to the lower ground floor at Hostem. Tented 18th century linens hand-dyed with walnuts and indigo envelop boots, shoes and blankets and an array of personal articles, precious objects and antiquities.read more

Galerie Perrotin is pleased to present “Music”, a double exhibition of new works by Xavier Veilhan, held simultaneously in the gallery's New York and Paris locations. It is the artist’s seventh solo exhibition with the gallery.

The Espaces Louis Vuitton Munich, Paris and Tokyo are pleased to present Le fil rouge [The red thread], a group exhibition of newly produced and existing works by eight internationally renowned contemporary artists. read more

In this exhibition, he presents a large number of recent paintings and three spatial objects. In connection with the exhibition, a new book will be published in the series Kykeon (Propexus), with texts by the artist, new essays, and a talk with Daniel Birnbaum.

UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: YVES SAINT LAURENT + HALSTON: FASHIONING THE 70S

until Saturday April 18 2015The Museum at the Fashion Institute of Technology
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7th Avenue at 27th Street
10001 New York
United States

Yves Saint Laurent + Halston: Fashioning the 70s will be the first exhibition to juxtapose and analyze their contributions to fashion at the height of their careers, as well as how they came to exemplify this singular, dynamic era in fashion history.read more

The Futur archaïque exhibition presents the connection that currently exists between the immediate, short-term or even distant future and the past, the archaic – in the sense of returning to fundamental principles. It is illustrated from the perspective of design.read more

How the store becomes front to an all-powerful global marketplace for which, in the time-being at least, the mall remains its congregational epicentre is a theme that runs through the photographs, video and sculptures in this exhibition featuring three important female voices in art today: Vancouver’s Vikky Alexander, and New York-based artists Josephine Meckseper and Jenny Holzer. Tread more

The exhibition presents a contrasting selection of works from two pioneers of Modernism, complete with historical background and examples of their impact extending up to the present day. Josef Hoffmann (1870–1956) and Adolf Loos (1870–1933) were the most important architects and designers in Vienna around 1900 in the generation after Otto Wagner (1841–1918). read more

Nirvana is the first comprehensive exploration of the influence of erotica in design, fashion and contemporary art. By turns cheeky, luxurious and mysterious, the exhibition presents the work of around one hundred contemporary creators who make use of an iconography connected with sensual pleasure, drawing inspiration from erotic and fetishist literature, and from the images, objects and garments to which they frequently refer.

Visitors will discover objects of superior workmanship, many of them rare and inaccessible, made from materials associated with the world of luxury goods and craftsmanship. The exhibition forces us to re-examine our own ideas and perceptions of pleasure, and shows how forms can be transmuted from the private to the public sphere. Three major creators are given carte blanche within the exhibition: Mark Woods (designer), Betony Vernon (jewellery designer) and Nika Zupanc (designer).
Curators: Marco Costantini and Susanne Hilpert Stuber

Douglas Coupland is one of Canada’s most celebrated contemporary artists, writers and thinkers. Through diverse media ranging from Lego to found materials, painting to installation, he explores issues which affect us all: the 21st-century condition, Canadian cultural identity, the power of language and the pervasive presence of technology in modern life. With incisiveness and humour, Coupland’s work will inspire you to question contemporary issues and suggest new ways of seeing your world. read more

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art presents Grammar of Freedom / Five Lessons: Works from the Arteast 2000+ Collection, developed in close collaboration with Moderna Galerija in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The exhibition features more than 60 artists and art collectives, with works ranging from the 1960s to the present.read more

Jesse Wine (born Chester, 1983) works mainly with ceramics and uses traditional techniques to explore process and chance. Wine never records his methods; he mixes glazes and oxides together and fires at different temperatures, seeing colours melt and blend and structures collapse. read more

Considered to be one of the most interesting contemporary artists, a protagonist of the Chinese artistic avant-garde with the Xiamen Dada movement he founded, Huang Yong Ping is in Italy for the first time with a major exhibition.read more

With its ninth presentation of the exhibition 100 Best Posters. Germany Austria Switzerland, the MAK will once again be placing up-to-the-minute graphic design at the center of attention. the best 100 “ambassadors to and/or masseurs of the public space” will again be exhibiting their design ideas in the MAK Works on Paper Room. read more

Nirvana is the first comprehensive exploration of the influence of erotica in design, fashion and contemporary art. read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: MODERN PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE THOMAS WALTHER COLLECTION, 1909–1949

until Sunday April 26 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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11 West 53rd Street
10019 New York
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The creative possibilities explored through photography were never richer or more varied than in the years between the First and Second World Wars, when photographers approached figuration, abstraction, and architecture with unmatched imaginative fervor. This vital moment is dramatically captured in the more than 300 photographs that constitute the Thomas Walther Collection at The Museum of Modern Art.read more

The presentation in the permanent collection offers a journey through the painter's both unique and related to the vanguards. Georges Noël's paintings are scanned nervous traits that incise a thick material made of a mixture of sand and pure pigments.

These works represent a broad panorama of the French art of drawing. Seminal exponents of realism take their place beside works by renowned impressionist artists; magical, suggestive works of symbolism, such as noirs by Odilon Redon, are joined by the no less abstruse and yet pointillist chalk sketches by Georges Seurat. Sun-drenched landscapes from the south of France by Paul Cézanne find a place for themselves next to the new goddesses of the 19th century: from prostitutes and dancers - viewed from the hidden vantage point that Degas gives us and, as seen by Renoir and Maillol - nudes who, lost in contemplation, remain impervious to our watchful eyes as they succumb to the banalities of everyday life.

The Espaces Louis Vuitton Munich, Paris and Tokyo are pleased to present Le fil rouge [The red thread], a group exhibition of newly produced and existing works by eight internationally renowned contemporary artists.read more

Organized with the cooperation of the artist, On Kawara—Silence is the first full representation of On Kawara’s output, beginning in 1964 and including every category of work, much of it produced during his travels across the globe.

The Art of Our Time: Masterpieces from the Guggenheim Collections celebrates 20 years of partnership between the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation and the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao. This exhibition, which echoes the museum’s inaugural presentation in 1997, reveals how the collections of the Guggenheim constellation of museums have grown and flourished over the years, and it also traces the how the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao has evolved into maturity as an international exemplar.read more

Among the important episodes in the architectural history of the 20th Century, this exhibitions produced by the CCA of Montreal is devoted to the incredible architectural and planning research and production during the Second World War.

This exhibition displays more than seventy books and artworks on paper by the Belgian poet and conceptual artist Marcel Broodthaers from Manfred Schmidt’s collection. The exhibition is supplemented with a number of works by Broodthaers from the Van Abbemuseum collection.

Orozco finds objects discarded on the street or discovers beautiful shapes in mundane contexts and, by slightly altering them, transforms them into artworks. His new readings of things--reminiscent of the Japanese garden's use of rocks and sand to evoke flowing water--offer viewers the enjoyment of pondering and deciphering his works. read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: UNEVEN GROWTH: TACTICAL URBANISMS FOR EXPANDING MEGACITIES

until Sunday May 10 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
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11 West 53rd Street
10019 New York
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Uneven Growth seeks to challenge current assumptions about the relationships between formal and informal, bottom-up and top-down urban development, and to address potential changes in the roles architects and urban designers might assume vis-à-vis the increasing inequality of current urban development.read more

Born in South Africa in 1953, Marlene Dumas moved to the Netherlands in 1976 and has become one of the most prominent painters of her generation.
This large-scale survey will be the most significant exhibition of her work ever to be held in Europe, charting her career from early works, through seminal paintings to newly finished canvases.read more

In his exhibition at Mamco entitled Permanent Exiles, Mounir Fatmi (b. 1970) tackles the themes that recur throughout his work: history, identity, the body, language – an impossible language, a separate body, an exile’s identity and a difficult history.

Body Talk addresses issues of feminism, sexuality and the body, as they play themselves out in the work of a generation of women artists from Africa active since the early 1990s. Bringing together artists from North, Sub-Saharan and South Africa, this group exhibition strives to define and articulate notions of feminism and sexuality in the work of women artists whose body (their own or that of others) serves as a tool, a representation or a field of investigation.read more

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UNITED STATES / MONTCLAIR: COME AS YOU ARE: ART OF THE 1990S

until Sunday May 17 2015Montclair Art Museum
3 South Mountain Avenue
07042 Montclair
United States

This exhibition marks the first major American museum survey to examine the art of this pivotal decade in its historical context. Showcasing approximately 60 works by 45 artists, it includes installations, paintings, sculptures, drawings, prints, photography, video, and digital art.read more

In this show, the focus is on design that is expressly aimed at improving the lives of the users it is intended for, the environment in which it operates and the society to which it belongs.
To demonstrate the key role that design can play in providing solutions to everyday problems of different types, improving the welfare of citizens, both in our immediate context and in more distant geographical regions.

The major spring exhibition La La La Human Steps in Museum Boijmans Van Beuninge features a hundred works of art from the museum’s collection. They all deal with la condition humaine: human failings. Four top choreographers have each created a duet especially for the exhibition.

An inventor as much as an artist, an “intuitive savant” as he defines himself, a contemporary avant-garde artist but also a scientific philosopher drawing from the most important ancestors of pre-Socratic philosophy and from Hippocratic to Ancient Egyptian medicine – Takis was a major figure in post-war sculpture.read more

Answering Marcel Duchamp’s question: “Are there any artworks that are not works of art?”, the exhibition Le Bord des Mondes explores the many fields of artistic creation and welcomes creative people from outside of the art world whose work would seem to belong to it through its depth, its beauty and its singularity. These artists – visionaries, experimenters, poets and pirates – reveal these unprecedented fields and defy limits.

The Jeu de Paume is presenting a vast panorama of Florence Henri’s photographic production from 1927 to 1940, including her self-portraits, abstract compositions, portraits of artists, nudes, photomontages, photocollages, as well as documentary photos taken in Rome, Paris and Brittany. The exhibition comprises vintage prints, various documents and published material.read more

Taryn Simon (b. 1975) has constructed an ambitious body of work that is the result of an invisible and rigorous process of research and investigation. Her works combine photography, text, and graphic design, in conceptual projects addressing the production and circulation of knowledge, and the politics of representation. Simon interrogates the power and structure of secrecy and the precarious nature of survival.read more

Vandy Rattana (born 1980 in Phnom Penh, Cambodia) lives and works between Phnom Penh, Paris and Taipei. His photographic career began as the expression of a concern for the lack of any physical documentation of the history, characteristics and monuments unique to his culture. read more

When Helmut Newton set up his foundation in Berlin in autumn 2003, he made an endowment of hundreds of original photographs which have since been preserved by the Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz as a permanent loan. For its tenth anniversary, the Helmut Newton Foundation is now premiering around 200 of these photographs, under the title "Permanent Loan Selection. These prints, mainly never before shown in Berlin, will be presented in separate rooms according to the three main genres of his work: portraits, nudes, and fashion.read more

The main exhibition of the spring season continues Design Museum’s series on 20th-century styles in design. It will extensively present the broad frame of reference of postmodernism from a Finnish perspective of the years 1980 – 1995 in architecture, design, popular culture and the arts. Also presented are international influences and actors in the field.

until Sunday May 24 2015Brooklyn Museum of Art
T : +1 (718) 638 5000
200 Eastern Parkway
11238-6052 New York
United States

A New Republic

The works presented in Kehinde Wiley: A New Republic raise questions about race, gender, and the politics of representation by portraying contemporary African American men and women using the conventions of traditional European portraiture. The exhibition includes an overview of the artist’s prolific fourteen-year career and features sixty paintings and sculptures.read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: 2015 TRIENNIAL:SURROUND AUDIENCE

until Sunday May 24 2015New Museum of Contemporary Art
T : +1 (212) 219 1222
235 Bowery
10002 New York
United States

A signature initiative of the New Museum, the Triennial is the only recurring international exhibition in New York City devoted to early-career artists from around the world.read more

For the past few decades Sylvie Blocher developed a body of video work addressing themes such as the construction of identity, self- or collective expression and the porous boundaries between masculine and feminine. Her works often involve the participation of outsiders invited to act in front of the camera to create what she calls Living Pictures. During the first weeks, the Grand Hall of the museum will be transformed into a film studio in which visitors may leave the ground.

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UNITED KINGDOM / LONDON: MAGNIFICENT OBSESSIONS: THE ARTIST AS COLLECTOR

A single work in the bustle of thousands captivated viewers at the Venice Biennale in 2013: the Irish Pavilion, which was the setting for the artist Richard Mosse’s frightening and uncomfortable video work The Enclave about the war in the Democratic Republic of the Congoread more

Over 20 years of fashion in an exhibition that recreates the atmosphere and the styles of a period that made an extraordinary contribution to the definition of the Italian identity on an international scale. An exhibition that once again trains the spotlights on fashion made in Italy with classic garments made by the masters of Italian haute couture.

The Palais Galliera joins to the Palais de la Porte Dorée, Musée de l’histoire de l’immigration public establishment to present "Fashion Mix". The exhibition is a tribute to French expertise which Russian, Armenian, Italian, Spanish, Japanese and Belgian designers – to name but a few in the field of fashion – help spread worldwide. read more

Nam June Paik Art Center holds this year’s first special exhibition 2015 Random Access. It is expected to reaffirm the NJPAC’s mission to establish itself as a platform on which Nam June Paik’s experimental spirit and contemporary art meet and offer an opportunity to discuss the artistic form presented by artists of the new generation and its meanings.

The exihibition Stedelijk in the war is based on recent research into the provenance of artworks conducted by the museum. What emerged were moving stories of collectors and artists, many of whom were Jewish, who were coerced into parting from their works of art.

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THE NETHERLANDS / ROTTERDAM: 200 YEARS OF THE KINGDOM OF THE NETHERLANDS

Hundreds of prints, drawings, photographs, cartoons and posters from the Atlas Van Stolk - atlas is an Old Dutch term meaning collection -illustrate the lives of the Dutch people during two centuries of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, and show how they have viewed themselves over the years.

The exhibition at the Château de Tours – the first show in France dedicated exclusively to this photographer – brings together a hundred images and documents from the archives kept by his daughter Ana Muller. This chronologically presented selection made by curator Chema Conesa follows the career and travels of this alert, curious photographer from 1935 to 1981.read more

The world is more fun when you know how to play with units. And when you are familiar with units, design becomes much more interesting. By showing aspects of the world through the filter of units, this exhibition will hopefully change the way people view everyday things that they normally do not give a second thought to, and lead to new discoveries and sparks of creativity.

The Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam presents Recent Ouija, the first solo exhibition of British artist Ed Atkins in the Netherlands. The 1100-square-meter lower-level gallery in the new wing will be transformed into an immersive environment of monumental operatic videos, collages and drawings.

The Guggenheim Museum Bilbao is proud to present this complete retrospective of the work of Niki de Saint Phalle (1930–2002), known around the world for works like her powerful, exuberant Nanas, her impressive Shooting Paintings—Tirs—, and emblematic public artworks like the Tarot Garden in Tuscany.read more

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UNITED STATES / BOSTON: &QUOT;OVER THERE! POSTERS FROM WORLD WAR I&QUOT;

Timed to coincide with the 100th anniversary of the outbreak of WWI, this exhibition features fifty wartime posters from the United States and Europe—including select examples from Britain, France, Germany, and Russia. Many of the works were used to encourage enlistment in the US Army, Navy, Marines, and Air Service, while others appeal to the American citizenry to buy war bonds, conserve food, support the Red Cross and other relief agencies, and maintain a strong work ethic on the home front. read more

The first exhibition at MMK 2 is dedicated to the women of the MMK Collection. Among Germany’s contemporary art museums, the MMK is unique in that, from its founding in 1991 to the present, it has directed special attention to female artists of the past decades. read more

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THE NETHERLANDS / HERTOGENBOSCH: &QUOT;IN SEARCH FOR NEW HAPPINESS &QUOT;

Everyone wants to be happy, and although the Dutch generally regard themselves as happy, research has shown that economic prosperity does not necessarily contribute to a feeling of happiness. read more

With Paul Gauguin (1848 – 1903), the Fondation Beyeler presents one of the most famous and fascinating artists in history.
As one of the great European cultural highlights in the year 2015, the exhibition at the Fondation Beyeler brings together about fifty masterpieces by Gauguin from leading international museums and private collections. read more

Painter and Painting: A Mehmet Güleryüz Retrospective presents an inventory of Güleryüz’s oeuvre from the 1960s to the 2010s. The exhibition sheds light on the development and transformation of the artist’s generous quest for expression, which ranges from painting, drawing, sculpture, and engraving to theater and performance.

Magnum - Contact Sheets is a major exhibition that takes the contact sheet as the basis for exploring the creative process behind some of the world’s most iconic photographs from the Magnum Photos agency.read more

me Collectors Room/Olbricht Foundation presents its first ever exhibition dedicated entirely to women artists, in a show entitled QUEENSIZE – Female Artists from the Olbricht Collection. With close to 60 artists, the exhibition represents a third of all women artists featured in the collection. read more

Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (American, b. 1973) creates immersive installations that explore what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents, and futures exist concurrently. For The Flat Side of the Knife, Golden presents her largest installation to date, filling the double-height of MoMA PS1’s Duplex Gallery with staircases, beds, couches, lamps, musical instruments, video, and sound.

Show me your closet, and I will tell you who you are! With the exhibition Cupboards, Cabinets, Chest, Designmuseum Danmark looks at storage furniture over the ages and traces the development of new types of furniture to match the changing needs.read more

The exhibition is a project organized by Mart, the museum of modern and contemporary art of Trento and Rovereto, with the collaboration of experts in history and contemporary art.
Through the development of a series of complementary contributions, the exhibition draws a distance from a simple reflection about history and offers a more complex overview regarding the topicality of the conflict, which is still today at the centre of debate.
The First World War being remembered now was one of the most dramatic and significant events of the modern era, and here represents the starting point for a broader investigation running through 20th-century history to the conflicts of the present day.read more

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UNITED STATES / NEW YORK: MAKING MUSIC MODERN: DESIGN FOR EYE AND EAR

until Sunday November 15 2015MoMA - The Museum of Modern Art
T : +1 (212) 708 9400
11 West 53rd Street
10019 New York
United States

Making Music Modern gathers designs for auditoriums, instruments, and equipment for listening to music, along with posters, record sleeves, sheet music, and animation. The exhibition examines alternative music cultures of the early 20th century, the rise of radio during the interwar period, how design shaped the “cool” aesthetic of midcentury jazz and hi-fidelity culture, and its role in countercultural music scenes from pop to punk, and later 20th-century design explorations at the intersection of art, technology, and perception.

This light installation is an entire electricity-conducting space, making it possible for lighting fixtures to be connected at any point. The walls and ceiling of the space consist of metal strips, with each strip functioning respectively as a plus or minus wire. read more

The first major survey of the German/British artist Tino Sehgal marks the new directorate of Beatrix Ruf. Taking place in 2015, the overview unfolds in 12 chapters. The Stedelijk Museum will present the live work of this radical artist nonstop for 365 days, from opening to closing time.

The exhibition A-Z. The Marzona Collection is a celebration of the conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s and illustrates the contemporary relevance of works from this era. The presentation spans the next two and a half years and features the collection of Egidio Marzona, which primarily consists of works of American and European conceptual art, Minimal Art, and Arte Povera.read more

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NORWAY / OSLO: &QUOT;THE DANCE OF LIFE – THE COLLECTION FROM ANTIQUITY TO 1950&QUOT;

The exhibition presents a chronological overview of more than 300 Norwegian and international masterpieces from the Renaissance, the Baroque period, Romanticism, Realism, Impressionism, Symbolism, Cubism and modern abstract art.